Warnings received before 9/11 (see 7- US foreknowledge) certainly suggest that bin Laden would have liked to carry out a huge terrorist attack and may have encouraged others to do so, but in April 2002, after raiding caves all over Afghanistan, FBI Director Robert Mueller stated; “In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper – either here in the United States or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere – that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot.”

On mainstream news we were shown a so-called ‘confession video‘ in which Osama was supposedly seen talking about the attacks with others, but the tape was of such poor quality that it was impossible to be sure the man was bin Laden at all, his words only demonstrated foreknowledge rather than an instrumental role, and the US translation was widely disputed as manipulative.

Yet, starting in November 2002, new audio messages purportedly from bin Laden, set over old pictures and footage, were released via Qatari news station Al Jazeera on a fairly regular basis, and we even had a couple of video messages. At last, he confessed to the attacks in a video released just four days before the 2004 US presidential election – lucky for Bush, who took a six point lead over his opponent John Kerry right after the release of the tape. But was it really bin Laden? Again, the picture quality was poor, and analysts wondered why he wasn’t speaking in English, since he was addressing the American people directly (it is known that his English was very good). They also noted differences in the way he spoke:

October 2001: In a speech of only 725 words, bin Laden referred to God (Allah) 20 times and to the prophet Mohammed 3 times. He placed everything in the hands of God: “God Almighty hit the United States… He destroyed its greatest buildings”. Human agents were involved, to be sure, but they were successful only because “Almighty God… allowed them to destroy the United States”.

November 2001: In a speech of 2,333 words, he referred to God 35 times and to the prophet Mohammed 8 times. Again, it’s all about God; he says if people are helped or harmed, it is always by “something that God has already preordained for [them]”.

October 2004: In approx 2300 words, he referred to God just 12 times, and the only “Mohammed” mentioned was Mohamed Atta, leader of the hijackers. Far from suggesting that everything is finally in the hands of God, he told the American people: “Your security is in your own hands” – a statement that a devout Wahabi Muslim would surely have considered blasphemous. (from this article by David Ray Griffin)

“I knew that he had to have two dialysis machines and he was dying. And you could see in those films, those made-up photos that they were sending us out of nowhere. I mean, suddenly, we would see a video of bin Laden today and then out of nowhere, they said oh it was sent to us anonymously, meaning that someone in the government, our government, was trying to keep up the morale on our side and say oh we still have to chase this guy when, in fact, he’s been dead for months…” “…not because special forces killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome.” — Dr Steve Pieczenik, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Nixon, Ford and Carter, consultant for the Department of Defense, former US Navy Captain.

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